CHAPTER 204
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Timboti stood in the middle of the formation, and for one moment—just one, brief and quickly suppressed—the expression on his face was the expression of a man who was genuinely, deeply concerned. Not the professional concern of a commander managing a difficult situation. The human concern of someone who understood that the situation had moved outside the boundaries of what the people present could reliably handle.

Then the commander reasserted itself, and his voice came out clean and hard and a
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